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Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
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Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce Lightning provides a secure and scalable platform to build, deploy, customize, and upgrade applications. This book will take you through the architecture of building an application on the Lightning platform to help you understand its features and best practices, and ensure that your app keeps up with your customers’ increasing needs as well as the innovations on the platform. This book guides you in working with the popular aPaaS offering from Salesforce, the Lightning Platform. You’ll see how to build and ship enterprise-grade apps that not only leverage the platform's many productivity features, but also prepare your app to harness its extensibility and customization capabilities. You'll even get to grips with advanced application architectural design patterns such as Separation of Concerns, Unit Testing and Dependency Integration. You will learn to use Apex and JavaScript with Lightning Web Components, Platform Events, among others, with the help of a sample app illustrating patterns that will ensure your own applications endure and evolve with the platform. Finally, you will become familiar with using Salesforce DX to develop, publish, and monitor a sample app and experience standard application life cycle processes along with tools such as Jenkins to implement CI/CD. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to develop effective business apps and be ready to explore innovative ways to meet customer demands.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Making components customizable

The components included in this chapter will appear in Lightning App Builder and are thus available for the developer and consumers of the package to drag and drop onto pages. The following screenshot shows how the components in this chapter appear in Lightning App Builder:

Although only Lightning Web Components are featured in this chapter, this book's sample code contains example components built using both Lightning Aura components and Lightning Web Components, hence both being shown in the previous screenshot. Unless otherwise stated in the component's description, components are Lightning Web Components.

To further expose components and properties to Lightning tools such as Lightning App Builder, Lightning Community Builder, and Lightning Flow, you must reference them and their properties in your component metadata...